11.1. The meeke and comfortable oration of the English prince to the French king being taken prisoner.
The meeke and comfortable oration of the English prince to the French king being taken prisoner.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 _MOst noble king, there is no cause wherefore your grace should be pensiue, though God this day did not consent to follow your will. For your noble prowes and dignitie roiall, with the supreme type of your kinglie ma|iestie, remaineth whole and inuiolate, and what soeuer may rightlie be called yours; so that no violent force of time shall blot out or diminish the same. The almightie God hath determined that the chance of war shall rest in his disposition and will as all other things. Your elders haue archi|ued both by land & sea manie noble enter|prises. The whole compasse of Europe, all the east parts of the world, all places and countries, both far & neere, are full of mo|numents, witnessing the noble victories atteined by the French people.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The cause of godlie liuing and religion, the dignitie and preheminence of christia|nitie hath beene defended and augmented by you, against the most mightie and puis|sant capteins of the infidels, enimies to the said christian religion. All ages shall make mention of your worthie praises, no nation there is but shall confesse it selfe bounden at one time or other for bene|fits receiued at your hands nether is there any people but such as hope to be hereaf|ter bounden to you for reliefe and benefits, to proceed from you in time to come. One or two battels happilie haue chanced among so manie triumphs otherwise than you would haue wished; chance would it should be so, which may infeeble and make weake the power of horsses, armor, and weapon: your inuincible courage and roiall magna|nimitie lieth in your power to reteine: nei|ther shall this day take any thing from you or yours. And this realme of France which hath procreat and brought foorth and nori|shed so many of my noble progenitors, shall [...] my good meaning towards h [...]r, as not forgetfull of mine elders, and toward your maiestie (if you will vouchsafe that I should glorie of that name) a most humble kinsman. There are manie occasions of loue and freendship betwixt you and my fa|ther, which I trust shall take place, for I know all his thoughts and inward mea|nings: you shall agree and come to an at|tonement right easilie togither, & I praie God he neuer take me for his sonne, except I haue you in the same degree of honor, re|uerence, and faithfull loue, which I owe towards him.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king (as reason would) acknowledged this to procéed of great courtesie shewed toward him in the prince, and thanked him accordinglie.The French king than [...] [...] the prince. And the prince performing in déed that which he spake with word, ceassed from further vsing of fire, or other indama|ging of the French dominions, and taking his waie through the countries of Poictou and Xaintonge, by easie iournies, he and his people came to Blaie, and so passed ouer the water to Burdeaux in good safetie with all their riches and prisoners.The prince returneth [...] Burdeaux. Froissard. The prince gaue to the lord Iames Audelie (who had receiued in the battell manie sore wounds) fiue hundred marks of yearelie reuenues assigned foorth of his lands in En|gland.The lord [...]delie rewar|ded. The which gift the knight granted as fréelie as he had receiued it vnto foure of his esquiers, which in the battell had béene euer attendant about his person, without whose aid & valiant support, he knew well that he had beene slaine sundrie times in the same battell by his enimies, and therefore thought it a dutie of humanitie and gratitude to make them a|mends with some temporall recompense, that had saued his life, than the which nothing is more déere, nor of greater price in the world, as the poet saith,
—nihil est vita pr [...]tiosius ipsa.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the prince heard that he had so doone, he mer|uelled what his meaning was therby, and caused him to be brought before his presence, and demanded of him wherefore he had so lightlie giuen awaie that reward which he had bestowed vpon him, and whe|ther he thought that gift too meane for him or not. The lord Audelie so excused himselfe in extolling the good seruice doone to him by his esquiers, through whome he had so manie times escaped the dangers of death, that the prince did not onelie confirme the re|signation of the fiue hundred marks giuen to the es|quiers, but also rewarded the lord Audelie with six hundred marks more of like yearelie reuenues, in maner and forme as he had receiued the other.